Dispute over tires leads to stabbing

STOCKTON - One man was stabbed and another is being sought by police after a dispute over tires led to a stabbing Saturday morning in southwest Stockton, authorities said.

Officers responded to a report of a person stabbed about 9:55 a.m. at a residence in the 1900 block of Diablo Creek Drive. They arrived to find a man in the garage with a stab wound, police said. The man was taken to a hospital to undergo surgery, but he was expected to survive, officers said.

The victim said his assailant was a former roommate who accused him of stealing his tires, officers said. The suspect, identified as 58-year-old Ramon Palacios, fled the scene in a silver late-model Mazda 323, authorities said.